TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1282, 27 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Voting papers for the Insurance Board election have been despatched from the head office, and may ba returned as s* on as the voter pleases to do so. The election virtually begins at once, but the final date for the receipt of voting papers is the 7th January, and they must be forwarded from all parts of the colony in time to reach Wellington by 10 o’clock on the morning of that day. Government intend to re-gazette the proclamation of offering rewards for the discovery of goldfields in the colony. Mr T. S. Duncan, one of the earliest settlers in Canterbury, and for a long time drown Prosecutor, died on Monday 7 morning at Christchurch. The body of James Anderson, who jumped into the Clutha river at Clyde on the sth mst., ha? been found below the Teviot, 30 or 40 miles down. At the inquest a verdict of suicide by drowning was returned.

Price and Bulelid, drapers, Invercargill, were on Monday lined £■> ano. costs for employing two girls after hours in breach of the Employment of .Females Act. Ihe Magissrate said the penally was made light because it was the first case of the kind that had been heard there.

Isaac Rout has been committed for trial at Auckland on a charge of forging consent to the marriage of a minor. Mrs Fuller, widow of the late Rev. James Buller, died at Christchurch on Tuesday evening, having survived her husband only seven weeks. On Tuesday evening a man 80 ye >rs old, named William B. Kidman, committed suicide by cutting iris throat atthe Royal George Hotel, Onristchurch. Be had been drinking heavily last week. The Rev. George Morice, Presbyterian minister at Balcutha, was drowned on Ocean Beach at Port Molyneux, on Tues day, where he was staying for the holidays, Mrs Morice was bathing, and, geiting into danger, Mr Morice went lo her assistance, hue lust his life in the attempt. Mrs Morice was got out by some Maoris, and restored to animation. Mr Morice’s body bus been recovered. The affair occurred in view of the nurse and children, of whom he leaves five. The body of Frank Morton, a carpenter who is believed to have drowned himself at Bulclutba a fortnight ago, was found on Tuesday on the beach at Port Molyneuz. A man named Bayliss was found drunk in the street at Dunedin on Saturday night. The police removed him to the hospital, where he died on Tuesday, having never regained consciousness. A prisoner named Murphy, undergoing a four months’ sentence at Auckland for larceny, escaped from the haid labor gang. A fool race of 125 yards has been arranged between Pickering (»f Auckland) and Woods (of Dunedin) for £25 a side The match will take place at Auckland uu the 7'h January. A Wellington commission agent named J. Bell Williamson was found in the Avenue, Wanganui, last Thursday nigh', with his leg broken in two places ]ust above the ankle. Hayrnan, the hangman, was discharged at Wellington on Wednesday on the charge of burglary, and his companion, Apurona, a Maori, was committed for trial. Government have accepted the tender of Messrs Sparrow and Co., of Dunedin, for the large iron viaduct at Wingatiri, on the Otago Central line. An extraordinary general meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company was held at Christchurch on Tuesday, Mr J. L. Coster in the chair. The resolution passed at a meeting on December 10th was confirmed, Mr Coster announced that the d rectors had decided on making two small calls, one of 10s per share on January 31st, and another of 10s later on.